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Rob Doyle, Cameo, reviewed by Edward Heathman - The Manchester Review Shirking the moral constraints of autofiction, this novel provides ecstatic multiple narrative planes that wrestle instead with the uncanny Rob Doyle | Cameo | Wieden & Nicholson: £20Reviewed by Edwar...

The Manchester Review
Rob Doyle, Cameo, reviewed by Edward Heathman
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13182

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First US review of #FewAndFarBetween and its very positive

Toronto people!!

Woohoo!

Always a pleasure to hear @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social speak about his writing. So thoughtful and fluent and rich in consideration.

Here he is in conversation with John Brannigan at the launch of Late Heaney @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social this evening.

Ah, Emily Hahn. What an amazing woman.

Book with a broken spine being mended with hinge tape. A jar of glue, a brush, and a bone folder lie on the counter behind the book.

part of my job is to take broken books and fix them so they are even stronger. i am genuinely happy that my life has come to this. 📚

20 years - congrats!

We need more poets versus fiction writers food fights

"I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend."

Tonight at 7pm our @jlod.bsky.social will be chatting MR HOO AND OTHER STORIES to the fabulous @rickoshea.bsky.social on ARENA on @rteradio1.bsky.social

People in UK publishing take note. In case you haven’t heard, your government is still at it.

And anything that hoovers up British publications is liable to get a lot of Irish ones too.

#SpeirGorm

Huh!

What To Expect When You're Expecting A Book — Jan Carson Here are ten things you might expect to feel in the run up to the launch of your book.

I wrote about managing your expectations in the run up to publishing a book, (very flippantly)
www.jancarson.co.uk/blog/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-a-book

Parting financial wisdom from my father tonight, as we ended our call: “You’ll never see a trailer behind a hearse.”

And much appreciated.

Quite the mix! Worth tuning in for!

Amazing stuff - brings back fond memories of the 1986 Irish film Eat the Peach where two men build a wall of death after watching an Elvis movie - directed by Peter Ormrod and starring Stephen Brennan, Eamon Morissey, Catherine Byrne, Joe Lynch, and Niall Toibin amongst others. Good fun.

“I’m categorically not. Can you make that the headline?” Cillian Murphy

One of the greats. In a Lonely Place, Ride the Pink Horse, and The Expendable Man secure her place, not just in crime but literature.

How the minds works, I visited my old school today, where I suppose I had my first experience of reading poetry attentively, and outside Frank Ormsby’s room I could still hear the rumble of the boys on the wooden floors, the clap of iron bound desks, Frank’s chalk writing still on the board.

Here's an odd thing a colleague pointed out: Merriam-Webster has, in MW 12, uncompounded a longstanding compound—that is, what had long been backseat (as a noun) is now back seat, with backseat pushed to the "less commonly" position.

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The Irish government's dumbshow over the US attack on Iran is connected with the imminence of the Paddy's Day junket.
Once that's out of the way and they're safely home, some concern may be expressed about the Yanks putting a target on the back of 20,000 Irish in UAE.
Until then mum's the word.

The NYT style guide

Congratulations

Oh, no!

mewing cat peers in the window morning dew